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Hmmm, interesting question. I assume you mean you have apache/php/mysql running on your OSX system, and on that same system you're running classic to test the OS9 browsers? I hadn't ever tried that, so I just had to boot up classic and check it out. My internal ip address, which is what I...

There's a program called "End Hanging Disconnect" that solves this problem. I can't remember where I found it, but a search on VersionTracker, or Google, should turn it up.

Add: There are a handful of apps that do quit when you close their window. These are generally applications where you can't have multiple documents open at once. If the application is its window, then generally the app will quit when you close its window. System Preferences is one, the...

Congratulations! You'll love your new Mac. If you don't, just ship it to me -- I can always use another one. ;) You are mostly correct -- when you click the red button to close a document, it does not quit the application, it merely closes the document. And yes, you can right-click the app in...

Ah, tableless design...! mdnky can probably give you a much better answer -- I've only ever played around with that a little, and have never actually built a web site that way. It's possible, using css, to design your pages and position everything on them without using tables. If you look at...

In 3 different browsers (Safari, Exploder and Firefox), the top left is narrow -- so I'm not sure what you're after there that you're not getting. By "top left" you're referring to the cell that contains "Visitor from Woking"? Judging by the rest of the page, I think maybe you meant the top...

I'd be careful with that; a browser that interprets it literally will overlap the paragraphs. I'd guess that you're getting some default padding showing up. If you scroll way up this page to my first post in this thread, you'll see I mentioned padding. You may want to set padding-bottom:0 in...

For the most part yeah, you're right. But it is something to take into account. With my contacts in, my vision is 20/20 -- but for personal browsing (as opposed to Web site building) I have my browser to never display any type smaller than 14 pixels. On my 19" monitor at 1280x1024, that keeps...

Minion -- whatever did happen to Minion? I seem to recall reading somewhere that it was dropped. The only place Minion exists on my computer is in my Adobe fonts folder -- so I guess Adobe still likes it. TWW -- clean, simple design, generous margins, generous line-height. And of course, I'm...

What do you know..... I never tried setting a margin-bottom on <br> before, but it works! However, it didn't appear, in my brief test, that a margin-bottom on paragraphs had any effect on <br> tags. It's interesting that you're seeing an effect, and I wonder why. Next step: I'm not clear on...

Nice work, mdnky! I have the feeling greiggy isn't quite ready for table-less css design yet, but if he wants to investigate it, what you put together could be a great starting point. I haven't really gotten into tableless design myself -- I've been waiting for better browser support, and I may...

Actually, height is not a valid attribute for tables, and it never has been. Height used to be a valid attribute for individual cells, but it has been deprecated. Height declarations will work, in most browsers, if you use either no DOCTYPE or a broken DOCTYPE, because without a valid DOCTYPE...

Fonts and typography are the holy grail of web site development. Nope, there's no cross-platform/cross-browser solution available. Much as it pains me to admit that M$ did something good, they did something really excellent in commissioning Verdana and Georgia to be legible and readable on a...

Greiggy, it sounds like you're "getting it" with regard to applying the class to the parent element (the td) rather than individually (i.e., to every paragraph). When I first realized how much time that alone would save me, it was very eye-opening. Thanks for your comments on my site. The...

Sorry if I assumed a level of knowledge that isn't there. But you can use the techniques I suggested from within Dreamweaver, and mostly from within its GUI interface, although some things do require dropping into code view. I started out hand-coding back in 1996, and didn't start using...

greiggy, you've got to open up the external css stylesheet, look at it, and tell us what the style declarations are for p and p.bodyMessg. We know that in your html you have paragraphs assigned the .bodyMessg style class, and that some of those paragraphs also have a bottom margin assigned...

I meant the CSS in your style sheet, as in what do you have declared for bodyMssg? Something like: .bodyMessg { margin-bottom: somethinghere; padding: something; line-height: something; otherstuff: something; }

I'd bet the .5em spacing is appearing under the paragraphs where you put style="margin-bottom:0.5em" in the paragraph tag. An inline style will override any margin-bottom declaration you put in the external style sheet. Now, can we also see what you've got declared for bodyMssg in your style...

Post the relevant css and html here so we can see what you've got in there.

Yeah, that's not the proper syntax for CSS. If you want to use inline css, use this: <p style="margin-bottom:8px;"> OR for an external stylesheet, use this in your html page: <p class="bodyMssg"> And this in your stylesheet: p.bodyMssg {margin-bottom:8px;} And link to the external...